[Featured Author] Daniel Abelman
Sheer Magic By Alexander James Daniel Abelman was sixteen when he stumbled upon the battered corpse of a murdered black man at the side of a remote dirt road in South Africa . He called the police who swung the body onto the back of a dusty pickup truck. "Don’t you want my statement … you know … for your investigation?" Daniel asked. The boss cop’s reply numbed him: "Investigation? Are you bloody mad, kid? It’s just another kaffir." That’s when young Daniel decided to leave what had been the Beloved Country -- and the adventure began. Daniel had been born in the busy South African shipping city of Port Elizabeth on the coast of the Indian Ocean in 1958. It was also the body-surfing capital of the world, and as a tot, he learned to swim long before he could walk. Later, unknowingly, he started to play the illusion game that became his life and fueled his bitingly satirical novel of skullduggery, Allakazzam! He said: It was a pleasant four-mile dow...